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Review Of The Mills On The Floss: George Eliot & Le Moulin Sur La Floss, Alain Jemeau

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Writing to her first French translator, Francois d' Albert-Durade, in 1865, George Eliot remarked on how little known his translations appeared to be in France, since she was always being approached by people who wanted to translate her works into French. After her death d' Albert-Durade's La Famille Tulliver: ou le Moulin sur la Floss did go on to be reprinted several times from the late nineteenth century onwards, but it has now been superseded by a new translation by Alain Jumeau which will have more appeal to modem readers and will certainly reach a far wider audience than d' …

Annual Report 2003, Kathleen Adams

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The Fellowship year always begins with the Annual General Meeting and in 2003 we amended our Constitution to exclude our Vice Presidents from the management team. This was because the Charity Commission rule that all members of the Fellowship Council are automatically trustees of the charity, and are unable to receive any payment from the Fellowship. This meant that we could not pay any of them for lectures, readings etc - an unacceptable situation. All the Vice Presidents were happy with this decision and we still keep them closely in touch with our affairs through the Minutes of the Council's …

'That Vankyke Duchess': Portraiture And Epic In Daniel Deronda, Susannah Rutherglen

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Portraits abound in Daniel Deronda - not only on the drawing-room walls of the Grandcourts and Mallingers, and in the 'grave Holbein faces' of the Meyrick family lithographs, but also in the actions and physiognomies of the novel's characters themselves. Daniel, in whom 'the family faces of various types, seen on the walls of the gallery, found no reflex' (166), nonetheless 'had that sort of resemblance to the preconceived type which a finely individual bust or portrait has to the more generalized copy left our minds after a long interval' (479).1 Gwendolen, 'that Vandyke duchess of a beauty' (558), sees …

'That Most Despicable Travesty Of A Women': Eliza Lynn Linton And Elma Stuart, Kathleen Adams

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The George Eliot Collection in Nuneaton Library includes a previously unpublished letter written by Elma Stuart, one of George Eliot's greatest admirers. It was written in response to a critical and spiteful article about George Eliot in 1895 by Eliza Lynn Linton in the journal The Woman at Home. It was inevitable that the vicious article would antagonize Elma, who was so besotted with her idol that she had engraved upon the headstone on her grave in Highgate Cemetery in London - and next to George Eliot's own grave .... 'whom for 8'h blessed years George Eliot called by the …

Japanese Branch Report 2003, Yoshei Abe

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The seventh annual convention of the George Eliot Fellowship of Japan was held at Nihon University in Tokyo, on Saturday 29 November 2003.

The morning session began with an opening address by Kimitaka Hara, a vice-president of the Japanese Branch and a professor at Nihon University. In the morning, three members read their papers under the chairmanship of Noriko Kubota, a professor at Tsuru Bunka University and Kyoko Kishimoto, a professor at Kyoto Sangyo University.

The first paper, "'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton" - the beginning of conflict' was presented by Naomi Ohno, a lecturer at Toyo …

Review Of Rereading George Eliot: Changing Responses To Her Experiments In Life, Bernard J. Paris

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

While he was still writing his doctoral thesis, which became his influential Experiments in Life: George Eliot's Questfor Values (1965), Paris fully accepted the rhetoric in Eliot's fiction that is designed to shape our moral and intellectual responses to her characters. By rhetoric Paris means not just Eliot's 'authorial commentary but titles, chapter headings, epigraphs, characters' observations about one another, the use of foils and juxtapositions, and a wide variety of stylistic and tonal devices ... ' (p.15). All of these combine to persuade us to see her characters maturing, becoming wiser, more often than not through painful bouts of …

The Two Timothy Coopers, Barbara Hardy

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Once or twice when I read and re-read the scene of the railway survey in Middlemarch I felt a sense of niggling lost connection, then one day I belatedly found it. George Eliot had copied the name of Elizabeth Gaskell's Timothy Cooper, in Cousin Phillis, for her character in Middlemarch.

Eliot wrote to Gaskell1 that she felt an affinity with 'the feeling which inspired "Cranford" and the earlier chapters of "Mary Barton'" and had read Cranford when writing Scenes of Clerical Life and Mary Barton when writing Adam Bede. When The Moorland Cottage was proposed as source for The Mill …

Are We All Firsts?, Marilyn L. Grady, Barbara Lacost

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

The manuscripts in this issue of The Journal of Women in Educational Leadership reflect the "first" phenomena. The issue of being a "first" is not limited to women in educational leadership roles.

Journal Of Women In Educational Leadership, Vol. 2, No. 1-January 2004

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

No abstract provided.

Women As School Principals: What Is The Challenge?, Valerie R. Helterbran, Sue A. Rieg

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

From 1988 to 1998 the percentage of female school principals increased from 20% to 48% and continues to grow. The number of women entering school administration has grown as has the number of principal turnovers. Women who seek positions in educational leadership face many issues. Ten barriers that continue to surface in the research are: little encouragement to assume leadership roles; lack of female role models; perceived need to be "better qualified"; women cannot discipline older, male students; resentment of males working for females; some educators prefer male principals; reluctance to relocate; long hours; women lack the desire for power; …

Black Women Administrators In Historically Black Institutions: Social Justice Project Rooted In Community, Gaetan Jean-Marie

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Black women are subjected to both racism and sexism; those who achieve privileged status are also the targets of classism. Frazier (1957), in addressing issues of the Black bourgeoisie, said "the frustration of the majority of the women ... is probably due to the idle or ineffectual lives which they lead" (p. 222). These negative judgments are based on the gaze, in other words, who these women "look like" from the outside. We hear a different story when listening to the voices of Black women educators working for social change.

Review Of The Southwest Airlines Way: Using The Power Of Relationships To Achieve High Performance By J. H. Gittell., John M. Palladino

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

In The Southwest Airlines Way: Using the Power of Relations to Achieve High Performance, Gittell, an assistant professor of management at Brandeis University and a member of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Global Airline Industry Program, provides a template of female leadership. Gittell described Southwest Airlines as a gemstone in the industry. After the tragedy of September 11, 2001, Southwest did not layoff employees; yet, the airline showed profit each year. Southwest's 2002 $9 billion total market value was greater than all other major airlines combined (Gittell, 2003, p. 3). Fortune magazine called Southwest "the most successful airline in history," praise …

Racial And Ethnic Preferences In College Admissions: How Much Is Too Much?, Donald F. Uerling

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Two 2003 Supreme Court decisions - Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger-considered challenges to the use of racial preferences in the admissions policies of two different colleges at the University of Michigan. Taken together, these two Equal Protection Clause decisions stand for the propositions that the educational benefits resulting from a diverse student body can be a compelling government interest and that race and ethnicity can be used as a "plus" to promote that interest, but not to the extent that such a preference insulates minority applicants from competition with other applicants and ensures the admission of nearly every …

Women In The Superintendency: Opting In Or Opting Out?, Mimi Wolverton, R. Timothy Macdonald

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

The purpose of this article was to report the most common career path to the superintendency in the Northwest. We compared career paths across four subgroups of study participants-male and female superintendents and male and female certificate holders who were not superintendents. First, we sought commonalities in the routes chosen by current male and female superintendents in the study. Second, we examined the career choices of potential superintendency applicants to determine whether they were actually gaining the types of administrative experience required by school boards and search consultants. We concluded with implications for practice based on study findings.

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 25 (2004), Kathlyn Sullivan, Barbara Brackman, Lucinda Reddington Cawley, Virginia Eisemon, Laurel Horton, Kaaren Beaver-Buffington, Loretta B. Chase, Pamela Weeks Worthen, Mary E. Gale, Margaret T. Ordoñez

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Kathlyn Sullivan

Rocky Road to Analysis: Interpreting Quilt Patterns by Barbara Brackman

In Teppich: Quilts and Fraktur by Lucinda R. Cawley

Sunday School Scholars Quilt: Civil War Textile Document by Virginia Eisemon

Mary Black's Family Quilts: Changing Styles, Status and Fabric Availability by Laurel Horton

A Quilt For General Grant by Kaaren Beaver-Buffington

A Blue Hills Quilt: To Miss Charlotte Hawkins by Loretta B. Chase and Pamela Weeks Worthen

Eighteenth-Century Indigo-Resist Fabrics: Their Use in Quilts and Bed Hangings by Mary E. Gale and Margaret T. Ordoñez

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Race, Culture, And Strategies For Success Of Female Public School Administrators, Marie Byrd-Blake

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

The purpose for conducting this study was to examine the differences among African American, Hispanic, and white female public school administrators with respect to their perceptions of successful strategies that led to career advancement. Female public school administrators continue to experience barriers to career advancement. The data revealed that Hispanic females perceived themselves as more successful in utilizing more strategies than African American and white females. Few females reported utilizing the informal mentoring technique of forming "new girl networks."

Review Of Leadership The Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies From The First Lady Of Courage. Robin Gerber., Jean M. Haar

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

The book is both a biography and an analysis of Eleanor Roosevelt's leadership skills. Each chapter begins with a story about Eleanor Roosevelt's personal and professional experiences. The stories are followed by references to leadership research, examples from contemporary women leaders, and suggests for improving individual leadership skills. Each chapter ends with leadership advice entitled "Eleanor's Way."

Journal Of Women In Educational Leadership, Vol. 1, No. 4-October 2003

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

No abstract provided.

A Long History Of Scholarship, Marilyn L. Grady, Barbara Lacost

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

The Journal of Women in Educational Leadership is an early mark in the 21 st century timeline and lengthens the chronological chart of women in history. In this issue, Mertz' longitudinal study of scholarship about women is extended, and Byrd-Blake offers perceptions of African American, Hispanic and white females concerning the strategies that enhance career advancement. Rhodes provides profiles of two women community college presidents and the lessons these women offer others considering the role. White, Martin & Johnson examine gender, professional orientation, and student achievement in their study of 100 school principals.

Gender, Professional Orientation, And Student Achievement: Elements Of School Culture, Teresa White, Barbara N. Martin, Judy A. Johnson

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

This study explored the relationships between professional orientation (defined as how the principal sees his or her role in the organization) and school culture, the influence of gender on professional orientation, and the relationship between school culture and the academic achievement of students. One hundred principals were surveyed. Two instruments, the Professional Orientation and the School Culture Survey were completed. The results were analyzed using linear regression statistics to determine (a) gender and professional orientation effect on the factors of school culture, and (b) if factors of school culture had an effect on student success in the elementary school. Findings …

Women In Line Administration: A Longitudinal Study In One State, 1972-2002, Norma T. Mertz

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

The article presents the results of a study of the movement of women in and into line administrative positions in one state since the passage of Title IX. The movement is presented in terms of position, year and type of district.

Manitoba Women And Higher Education: Momentum To Stay The Course, Carolyn Crippen, John R. Mccarthy

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Her education is the same as that of a man ... she is able to unfold and exercise her mental powers and faculties. She chooses her occupation in such a way as corresponds with her wishes, inclinations and natural abilities, and she works under conditions identical with man's. Even if engaged as a practical working woman on some field or other, at other times of the day she may be educator, teacher, or nurse, as yet others she may exercise herself in art, or cultivate some branch of science, and yet others may be filling some demonstrative function. She joins …

Can We Do It With Class?, Marilyn L. Grady, Barbara Y. Lacost

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

We, like Hepburn, are fortunate to be educated-since education opens doors for women. The manuscripts in this issue, all attest to the significance of education in women's lives-education as opportunity.

Review Of Women In Higher Education An Encyclopedia. Ana M. Martinez Aleman And Kristen A. Renn, Editors., Jean M. Haar

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Women have constituted a majority of students in American colleges and universities since 1979. Women earned more than half of all associates, bachelors and masters degrees and more than one-third of all doctorates (Touchton & Davis, 1991). Even with these numbers, the study of women in higher education has often been overlooked (Glazer, Bensimon, & Townsend, 1993). Women in Higher Education: An Encyclopedia atones for overlooking "almost entirely women's role as shapers and interpreters of the academy" (Glazer et al., p. ix). The editors have created a comprehensive source of information and resources related to women in higher education in …

Journal Of Women In Educational Leadership, Vol. 1, No.3-July 2003

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

No abstract provided.

Emerging From The Academic Pipeline: Senior Women Faculty Members, Florence A. Hamrick

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Twenty-six women with professor rank at a large, public, research extensive university were interviewed for this study in which respondents discussed the meanings and significance associated with full professorship. Major themes included: the promotion event and the accompanying title of professor, anticipated and actual changes in their status and working conditions, and their identities, goals, and contributions as professors. Conclusions address issues such as dilemmas of senior professorship, effective participation in institutional governance, and progress of women through the faculty ranks.

Two Profiles Of Women Community College Presidents, Melinda Rhodes

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

This study focuses on the narratives of two women leaders, one of whom continues to work as a community college president and another who made the transition from a community college presidency to the directorship of a continuing education division of a large, state research university. The women were first interviewed in 2000 when they discussed their own career characteristics and views of women presidency leadership issues. At that time, one was considering accepting a post leading a northwest community college undergoing drastic changes in mission, goals and target student population. She served as that college's president in 2002.

Title Ix: Boom Or Bust?, Marilyn J. Mather

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Athletics has been significantly impacted by Title IX through an increase the number of female athletes, the number of teams available, and indirectly, the development of women's professional leagues. However, women in leadership positions in athletics have declined significantly since Title IX was signed into law. A concern about the discontinuation of some men's non-revenue producing sports influenced the Department of Education to form the Commission on Opportunities in Athletics to review Title IX. The process and findings of the Commission are discussed, as well as the possible impact of the Commission's recommendations.

Adolescent Females With Communication Disorders Involved In Violence: Educators' Opinions, Judy K. Montgomery, Dixie Sanger, Barbara J. Moore-Brown, Leslie Smith, Marilyn Scheffler

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

This study focused on increasing the awareness of educational leaders about the relationship between students with communication disorders and violence. A review of selected research on adolescent females with language problems residing in a correctional facility served to support a survey study and extend discussions about the need for educational leadership within this population. Ninety-six speech-language pathologists, special educators, and teachers were surveyed about their training and knowledge on the role of communication in violence. Findings suggested the majority of participants agreed on the importance of planning prevention programs. However, they did not receive training and were uncertain about providing …

Voices Of Women High School Principals, Ellen Wexler Eckman

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

This study presents the challenges women face in educational administration from the perspective of female high school principals. Eight women high school principals participated in the qualitative study that focused on their careers, the conflicts between their personal and professional roles, and the impact of gender on the high school principalship. The participants acknowledged the importance of encouragement and mentoring in their decisions to become high school principals. They continued to be affected by the male image of the high school principal. They sought support from other female leaders as well as offered mentoring to women aspiring to administrative positions. …